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MARCH 2002 Contents Neemrana
- literary storm in a Society & Culture Basant-
the Kite festival without Visual Arts Tagore's 'Geetanjali' on canvas Leadership Know your leaders - Part II Business & Economy Heritage Lutyen's
'dream city' turns into a Environment & Wildlife Forests - Encroached & Poached Viewpoint Lifestyle Sports Shiva Keshavan - India's lone Luger Books 'Knock
at Every Alien Door' Fashion
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Editor's Note
Daniel Pearl's merciless and meaningless execution at the hands of mindless, barbaric individuals jolted many to the very sad reality around us today. The brutality of capturing his torture and his last painful moments of life on video, is on par with what Hitler and Nadir Shah and many other medieval characters did to their contemporaries. Human viciousness seems limitless. Pearl's very brave wife remarked that, "His captors have killed him, but not his spirit." His spirit has indeed survived. There was never a greater need for such spirit than now. The carnage at Godhra and the subsequent insanity, spread like bushfire, while the keepers of our state machinery took their time to react to the rampage that took 500 lives or more. The collective wisdom of our history and civilisation has taught us, time and again, that two wrongs do not make a right. Yet we seem to have lost our power of discrimination and discernment. Most of us who grew up in India, were weaned on Jataka tales and parables from mythology - yet we seem to forget the most important of metaphors - the example of an elephant. The strongest animal of the jungle can uproot giant trees and can also pluck a single blade of grass - gently and sensitively. Tariq Saeedi's 'Punjabi Dawakhana' published in this issue of the-south-asian, is a subtle reminder of the irrationality of obsessive ethnicity and 'irreligious' fervour.
Roopa Bakshi
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